27 STEPS - TEN YEARS LATER book, Tibi Ușeriu (2025 / Romanian)

Genre: Literature

Subgen: An Autobiography

Romanian language

Date of publication: 2025

Cover Type: Paperback

ISBN: 978-973-0-42305-1

Dimensions: 14,8 cm / 21 cm

Pages: 334

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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝟮𝟳 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽𝘀. 𝗧𝗲𝗻 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿.

New, revised, and expanded edition. It includes a clarifying preface about how the book was written, a unique selection of color photographs, plus five fresh chapters describing the most significant events of recent years. Zero gunshots. No escape.

In this extended volume, Tibi Useriu revisits his recurring themes of vast spaces, freedom, and childhood traumas, and tells us what the life of an endurance runner looks like at the Arctic Circle after parking his gear and sled in the shed of the Tasuleasa Social.

Among these stories are adventures in Yukon, a race at the foot of Mount Everest, his role in creating the Via Transilvanica trail alongside his brother Alin Useriu, a 1,400-kilometer run with friends, the fear of raising a child, and what it feels like to dream almost every week that you are back in a maximum-security prison.

And above all, when not even Tibi himself believed it possible, we are told of the surprising return to the 6633 Adventure Series in March 2025. Here are the words from the preface of the new volume:

💬 “Over the years, many people have asked me for a continuation of 27 Steps. But what more can you write when you’ve already said it all? My life, even if it seems to contain several lives within it, is still just one and the same. And the story already holds pretty much everything worth knowing.

So, I chose a compromise. I decided to add a few new chapters to recount the most significant events I’ve lived through in recent years. Small and great miracles have happened—things that might be interesting for others too, not just for me.

Some are useful life lessons, others are lessons in humility, a blend of small victories with monumental failures, alternating with quiet periods when nothing particularly memorable happened. Just life, passing by, like time itself.

Meanwhile, I became the subject of a film, nearly froze to death in a desert at the end of the world, almost died in a ditch not far from home, I’m learning how to raise a child, I keep working on maturing the child within me, and I admit that sometimes I still struggle to make peace with a tumultuous past that clings to me.”